THE DEFINITIVE RANKING.
Aurora
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If this was a race and feminism was the finish line, Aurora would be the person who falls just past the start line, shrugs it off, sits on the lawn, and starts putting little flowers in her hair. The only things Aurora does in the movie are not talk (she's one of the Disney princesses with the fewest lines of dialogue), sleep for a solid 75% of her movie, and wait for the prince to wake her up from her nap with a kiss. And none of this is ever a personal choice: Aurora has less autonomy than a chair.
Moral of the story: No feminism.
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Snow White
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Speaking of sleeping, here we have the most spineless princess in the entire Disney universe.
Snow White has to run away because, according to a mirror, she's prettier than the queen. Snow White escapes after they try to murder her, and a group of friendly animals lead her to a house inhabited by seven dwarves. So...what is the first thing dumb Snow White does when she enters a house that belongs to seven guys? She starts cleaning it until it's spick and span.
Moral of the story: No feminism.
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Cinderella
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Cinderella is a woman who lives as a servant in her own home, and who is forced to do all the necessary house chores in a big-ass house that probably measures about 2,000 square feet. TBH, Cinderella is so far removed from the world, she probably thinks "feminism" is just a new brand of detergent.
Her only chance at dignified survival is asking her fairy godmother for a pair of heels and a nice dress so she can go to the ball and find some rich guy who can rescue her from her miserable life. And, since Cinderella is pretty (yay!), she gets the rich guy (a prince, no less) to notice her, even though she has to leave before midnight so that no one suspects that she's actually so poor that her best friends are a bunch of rats. In the end, everything is resolved: There's nothing like running away with a rich guy you just met for, like, 15 minutes, and who (although he can't even remember your face) has a fixation on your feet to pull you out of poverty!
Moral of the story: No feminism. Fetishism.
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Ariel
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Ariel has a few strong points: She's a nonconformist, she cares about stuff, she's creative, and she's constantly questioning the excessive self-righteousness of her father, the Asshole of the Seas. But she also decides to give up her greatest talent (her voice) so she can go and hang out with some hunk she only saw for two minutes and never even spoke to.
Most of her decisions don't seem to be well thought out (maybe because she's 16), and they always have one thing in common: guys. She escapes to get away from a guy (her father) and go meet another guy (Eric). Booooo, Ariel.
Moral of the story: No feminism.
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